Irlweg, the “unflappable” customer service rep at United who said last December the “matter was closed.” The third song in the trilogy will be about the outcome and is not yet written.
The second song is a “lighthearted” lyric about Ms.
#Airline guitar song free#
Other airlines have offered him free trips to experience their customer service and Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars personally telephoned, offering two guitars of his choice and props to use in the second video about the incident. Sales of Sons of Maxwell’s eight albums and Carroll’s solo disc have increased from “one or two a day online to probably hundreds,” he estimates, thanks to his viral smash. Carroll says his personal Website had gone from 40 to 50 hits a week ago to 50,000 by Thursday. He returned home from tour Sunday night to 4,000 e-mails from people with commiserating stories, offers and praise for his music. It’s not a working man’s angry protest song.” “The cool thing though was that everyone was smiling and laughing when they were singing it. “It was unbelievable, 1,500 people raising their hands in the air to the ‘united breaks guitars’ tag line in the chorus,” says Carroll. The concert was sold out long before the video was ever released, but it was the first time Sons of Maxwell had performed “United Breaks Guitars” since the insanity began, including international media attention, most notably a clip on CNN’s The Situation Room. “Everybody was calling for that song the minute we hit the stage,” says Carroll from his home in Halifax, NS. The video, which chronicles the country rocker’s arduous (and failed) attempt to get compensation from United Airlines after baggage handlers damaged his $3,500 Taylor guitar, has received almost 2.5 million views, as of today (watch it, above). Five days after Dave Carroll posted a $150 video for the twangy “United Breaks Guitars” on YouTube, his band Sons of Maxwell were met with “almost militant” requests for the song at their Friday gig at Codstock in Arichat, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.